Saturday evening, as noted in last Wednesday's entry, I went to BBVA Compass Stadium with a party of six to see the Dash play Sky Blue FC. Six different Dash players scored a goal each, one for each in our group. And my niece got a photo with Dynamo Diesel before the match. Even a 6-1 victory wasn't enough, however, to keep the club's playoff chase alive, as the Chicago Red Stars beat the Orlando Pride that evening, and one of Chicago's two remaining games is against the Utah Royals, who are ahead of the Dash on head-to-head results, so effectively there's no way for the Dash to jump into fourth place.

Consolation: the Dash can go have fun and play under no pressure against the first-place Courage in Cary NC. It sure beats where the squad was at this time last year, playing home games in Frisco and Edinburg while their stadium and the surrounding neighborhood were partially submerged. (Sidenote: Frisco and Edinburg, along with Cary, are venues for the upcoming CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifiers.)

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Reminiscences were the theme of the week, as Texas Progressive Alliance bloggers and news sources looked back at Hurricane Harvey, John McCain, and other people and events in the week that was.

Last Tuesday's conviction of Paul Manafort and guilty plea by Michael Cohen--which occurred within minutes of each other—was a turning point for the Trump presidency, and both items were briefly summarized by Somervell County Salon.

The neoliberal storm rages on in the Bayou City, as Harvey's damage did absolutely nothing to change the way bidness goes down at City Hall between the developers and the Democrats.

In some cases, MUDs directly lied to residents about whether their housing units were located in the region’s floodplains. In others, they directly disfigured water flow patterns of the land, opening it to more hazardous flooding against the complaints of residents.

And yet Houston developers have continued to push this privatized model, arguing that without MUDs, developers would have to pay for utilities with their own capital, likely resulting in poor service provision — if not cuts altogether.

The local debate about MUDs reflects the confidence of Houston’s developers and the weakness of the opposition, both in the council and outside of it. This balance of forces allowed real-estate capitalists to transform a statement about privatization’s fundamental insolvency into an argument for its acceleration.

In election news, Beto O'Rourke is quickly becoming a cult of personality for Democrats, not just in Texas but across the country. The Sulphur Springs News-Telegram opined about "Havana Ted McCarthy Cruz and Robert Francis Kennedy O'Rourke" playing debate chicken. Socratic Gadfly took down the Buzzfeed puff piece about Beto. And Off the Kuff took a look at the latest Senate race poll and compared O'Rourke's numbers to those of Lupe Valdez.

The Dallas News reported that Valdez's missing pistol was located exactly where it should have been: in the Dallas County Sheriff's Department property room. It took a second audit to locate it.

The madness of Dan Patrick was on full public display, as our state's lite governor went on Fox to rage at CNN and MSNBC for the death of Mollie Tibbetts, and challenged Geraldo Rivera--and not Mike Collier, his actual November election opponent—to a debate.

Winner is a Kingsville native who joined the Air Force after graduating high school. During her time in the military, Winner worked as a linguist and translator in Arabic and Farsi with the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, Maryland. She later left the military and moved to Augusta, Georgia where she worked as a contractor translating Farsi for the NSA. It was while contracting in 2017 that she printed out and mailed a classified document regarding Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election.

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Winner’s defense requested that she serve her sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a federal prison in Fort Worth, where she can get treatment for her bulimia and be closer to her family in Kingsville. On Thursday, Judge J. Randall Hall Judge agreed to make the recommendation to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for Winner that she be detained in Texas

Leif Reigstad at TM also has another update on Amazon's HQ2, showing Dallas and Austin as frontrunners for the coveted economic prize. Austin isn't all that thrilled about it.

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